The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. Hardware implications. Operating system and network implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 218

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 218

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 185

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 185

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether it’s your TV, audio system, digital home assistant, or refrigerator chances are those devices run an operating system such as Android allowing you access to the device’s features through apps. Crashes sometimes happen because of a specific combination of hardware, software and the environment (e.g.,

Mobile 201

Mobile Media Hardware Network 201

Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Example of Regression Testing in Agile Framework: The below diagram illustrates the role of regression testing in the final delivery of the product in an Agile framework: Sprint is a set period of time during which specific work has to be completed and made ready to be shipped. Example of Retesting. Patch fixes are added.

Testing 53

Testing Hardware Testing Tools Strategy 53

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

But with the benefits also come concerns about observability, and how to monitor and manage ever-expanding cloud software stacks. Some common examples include: A request through API Gateway or Amplify. For such functions, organizations will be better off using an EC2 instance or their own hardware to interact with data.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 187

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Here are some examples.

Open Source 310

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 310

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Example: Consider an e-commerce app that is running an offer of providing 50% off on the next order to the customer. Example: A new functionality is added in a gaming iOS application and is unit tested successfully. Operating System. The app should support the software components like APIs, videos, voice, images, etc.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. Coming up on Jan 26, 2022 I’ll be presenting at the online OReilly Software Architecture Superstream event.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Testing Techniques. ” In Static Testing, code is not executed.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. They may even help develop personalized web analytics software as well as leverage Hashes, Bitmaps, or Streams from Redis Data Types into a wider scope of applications such as analytic operations.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. .” ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone. OS challengers, therefore, strike a bargain.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

We love it so much that we devise new ways all the time to incorporate automation in each and every field of software development. Mobile devices are the most fragmented thing you will ever work with while developing software. Test automation in conventional software is straightforward. We, engineers, love automation!

Mobile 77

Mobile Testing Operating System Hardware 77

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Ok, so maybe that is an oversimplified example, but you get the point. Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards. Today, there are a variety of architectures and systems in use. Blockchain is a good example of this. Awesome, everything is running as expected. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. For example, a whole B-tree might be a single persistent object. This is left as an exercise for the application developer at present.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software. The benchmarking software simulates the actions of multiple individual users and these users must run in parallel to test the MVCC (Multiversion Concurrency Control) capabilities of the database.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

foo" GROUP BY itemId) computed ON di.itemId=computed.itemId WHERE COALESCE(last_update, '1970-01-01') < download_time; FETCH 10000 IN "test-cursor-crash"; COMMIT; The above example is taken from here. It is the responsibility of software developers to build debug symbols. Below is an example of reading the core dump. $

Programming 84

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 84

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Database: MySQL 8.0.31 and 8.0.32

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example. IP Blocking.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

IBM had launched the trademarked Personal Computer in 1981 using an open architecture of widely available components from 3rd party sources such as Intel and the fledgling Disk Operating System from an unknown firm in Seattle called Microsoft. In 1987, IBM introduced a new product, the Personal System/2.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. These may include operating systems and other software on the machine. Software as a Service (SaaS). Source: Twitter.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

So while you probably won’t be using Zippads in practice anytime soon, it’s a wonderful example of what’s possible when you’re prepared to take a fresh look at “the way we’ve always done things.” Hotpads is a hardware-managed hierarchy of scratchpad-like memories called pads. ” The big idea. Implications.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. The following are examples of successful recovery situations actually encountered by Microsoft SQL Server Product Support Services personnel.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. The paper focuses on two key use cases: A confined component running in its own security domain, connected to the rest of the system by explicit (e.g.

Hardware 44

Hardware Cache Latency Speed 44

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Here are five considerations every software architect and developer needs to take into account when setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. For example, we can combine a machine learning job for anomaly detection with a dashboard that summarizes the findings to facilitate further investigation.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

For example the following chart (with the actual data removed for the reasons described further in this post) shows the HammerDB TPC-C workload run against the same database on different processing architectures (grouped by colour) and speed with the most recent at the top. can you be sure that it scales?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. Let’s now look at the operating system level. Why should you care? Not all writes are equal either.

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time. Test Automation is a software testing method that uses automatic methods to carry out a test case collection. Fast Feedback.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52